Paula Hincapié and daughter Layla at the rallyTwo weeks after Betty Rendón and Carlos Hincapié were arrested at their Chicago home as part of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation, advocates and faith communities joined the couple’s daughter and granddaughter in a rally outside…

Bill Provides Hope to Many but Needlessly Takes it from Others
Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, National Immigrant Justice Center
As committee markup of the Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6) moves forward today in the U.S. House of Representatives, the National Immigrant Justice…

The White House asked Congress today for billions more in taxpayer dollars to fund further militarization of the border and more jail beds for asylum seekers and other immigrants. The request came only months after Congress handed DHS an unprecedented $25 billion immigration and border enforcement…

Statement from Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
President Trump’s April 29 memorandum violates our nation’s longstanding laws and international obligations. These measures will not make our country safer, but rather weaker by abandoning our most cherished…

Newly released government records reveal that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) monitored protest preparations across the United States and internationally in June 2018, as communities organized to oppose the Trump administration’s separation of children and parents at the southern border.…

As the Trump administration seeks to indefinitely detain asylum seekers and continues its rapid expansion of its immigration prison system, a new report from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) calls on the U.S. government to end the use of immigration detention and adopt community-based…

AG’s Ruling in Matter of M-S- Further Consolidates the President’s Power over Migrants’ Fates in the United States
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General William Barr’s decision to deny bond and indefinitely detain asylum seekers who enter the United States outside ports of entry betrays American…

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling in Nielsen v. Preap, rejected an interpretation of federal law adopted by some lower courts and re-expanded the reach of “mandatory detention.” Immigrants subject to mandatory detention are jailed for the duration of their immigration court proceedings,…

The Defund Hate Coalition issued the following statement in response to President Trump declaring a national emergency to funnel billions more tax dollars to build more wall on the southern U.S. border:
“Today, Trump declared a fraudulent national emergency for his border wall funding, confirming…